Less than five weeks after she resigned her cabinet seat over a dispute with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Chrystia Freeland has launched her campaign to replace him as the leader of the Liberal party.

In a sparsely worded post on the social media platform X, the former finance minister and deputy prime minister said simply that she's "running to fight for Canada."

Amid Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s calls for a “carbon tax election”, two leading Liberal leadership candidates are dropping the Trudeau policy.